Anxiety famous quotes

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Media #Order #Anxiety

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Prayer #Presidential #Anxiety

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
-- Abraham Zaleznik

#Entrepreneur #Anxiety #Psychology

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'
-- Adele

#Anxiety #Listening #Gorgeous

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Country #Light #Anxiety

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Worry #Anxiety #Important

The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I'm anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream. That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Dream #Night #Anxiety

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Jesus #Anxiety

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.
-- Aimee Liu

#Safety #Anxiety #Inward

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Confusion #Anxiety #Mind

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
-- Alain de Botton

#Thinking #Opposites #Anxiety

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
-- Alain de Botton

#Annoyed #Anxiety #Political

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.
-- Alain de Botton

#Goal #Anxiety #Promise

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
-- Alain de Botton

#Photography #Anxiety #Losing

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.
-- Alan Ball

#Strong #Heart #Anxiety

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
-- Alan Watts

#Differences #Anxiety

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
-- Alan Watts

#Opposites #Anxiety #Forever

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
-- Alan Watts

#Anxiety #Brain #Attention

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
-- Albert Camus

#Flower #Creating #Anxiety

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
-- Albert Ellis

#Thinking #Worry #Anxiety

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
-- Albert Ellis

#Worry #Anxiety #Painful

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
-- Albert Ellis

#Worry #Anxiety #Situation

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
-- Albert Ellis

#Sex #People #Anxiety

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Mean #Anxiety #Consistency

Anxiety is the normality of our age,
-- Alex Colville

#Anxiety #Age

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.
-- Alexander Shulgin

#Waiting #Anxiety #Feelings

Life is to be entered upon with courage.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Courage #Worry #Anxiety

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
-- Alona Tal

#Anxiety #Lasts #Classroom

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Birthday #Anxiety #Age

Anxiety, it just stops your life.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Worry #Anxiety

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
-- Amit Ray

#Meditation #Anxiety #Live In The Moment

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
-- Amy Clampitt

#Mad #Long #Anxiety

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
-- Anais Nin

#Love #Anxiety #Killers

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
-- Andre Maurois

#Love #Anxiety #Effort

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
-- Andre Maurois

#Bird #Anxiety #Doe

There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.
-- Andrew Kaufman

#Naps #Two #Anxiety

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
-- Anna Brackett

#Anxiety #Goes On #Care

If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.
-- Anna Olson

#Giving #Anxiety #Credit

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!
-- Anne Ellis

#Anxiety #Affluence #Wealth

At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.
-- Anne Lamott

#Lying #Long #Anxiety

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
-- Anne Lamott

#Anxiety #Culture #Quiet

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Humble #Anxiety #Feelings

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.
-- Antoni Tapies

#Worry #Anxiety #Feelings

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Anxiety #Political

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
-- Arno Gruen

#People #Anxiety #Identity

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Powerful #Hard Work #Anxiety

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Bad Ass #Anxiety #Doubt

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch

#Anxiety #Haunting #Shade

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Ambition #Anxiety #Feelings

I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Writing #Worry #Anxiety

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Worry #Anxiety #Dying

The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Dream #Military #Anxiety

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.
-- Babur

#Men #Brave #Anxiety

When desire dies, fear is born.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Anxiety #Desire #Born

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
-- Barbara Tuchman

#Christian #Giving #Anxiety

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
-- Barry Levinson

#Two #Anxiety #Chance

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
-- Basil King

#Knowing #Worry #Anxiety

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
-- Ben Jonson

#Anxiety #Care #Possession

The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.
-- Ben Schwartz

#Knowing #Anxiety #Gigs

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Anxiety #Life Is #Unnecessary

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Worry #Anxiety #Matter

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.
-- Beverly Pepper

#Art #Anxiety #Goes On

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
-- Beverly Sills

#Reality #Boss #Anxiety

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.
-- Bill Burr

#Boys #Years #Anxiety

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
-- Bill Crawford

#Anxiety #Use #Anxious

I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."
-- Bill Nighy

#Yesterday #Self #Anxiety

I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.
-- Bill Reid

#Anxiety #Littles #Lasts

Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome.
-- Bill Struth

#Years #Anxiety #Tolerance

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Grief #Men #Anxiety

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.
-- Billy Graham

#Christian #Anxiety #Natural

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.
-- Binnie Kirshenbaum

#Anxiety #Next #New Thought

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Life #Men #Anxiety

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Anxiety #Economic #Enormous

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself
-- Bobby Darin

#Space #Anxiety #Flying

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.
-- Boris Sidis

#Worry #Anxiety #Feelings

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Disappointment #Anxiety #Suffering

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
-- Brené Brown

#Differences #Addiction #Anxiety

If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!
-- Brian Johnson

#Regret #Thinking #Anxiety

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.
-- Brian Richardson

#Technology #Worry #Anxiety

Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.
-- Brian Richardson

#Worry #Anxiety #Anxiety And Worry

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.
-- Brian Tracy

#Business #Two #Anxiety

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.
-- Brian Tracy

#Loneliness #Joy #Anxiety

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.
-- Brian Tracy

#Stress #Anxiety #Tasks

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
-- Bruce Lee

#Anxiety #Ongoing #Gaps

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
-- Bruce Lee

#Giving #Choices #Anxiety

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
-- Bruce Lee

#Evil #Worry #Anxiety

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Letting Go #Anxiety #Abundance

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
-- Byron Katie

#Simple #Anxiety

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
-- Carl Sagan

#Anxiety #Pay #Anticipation

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
-- Carly Simon

#Anxiety #Anxiety Attacks #Scared

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety
-- Carol Ann Duffy

#Thinking #Anxiety #Abuse

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
-- Carrie Brownstein

#Moving #Anxiety #Get Better

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.
-- Cary Grant

#Anxiety #Insecurity #May

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Sick #Bullshit #Anxiety

For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Running #Anxiety #Machines

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
-- Charles Frankel

#Anxiety #Intellectual #Essentials

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
-- Charles Lamb

#Anxiety #Human Nature #Cowardice

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Grief #Thinking #Anxiety

My anxieties have anxieties.
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Anxiety

When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Christian #Anxiety #Focus